Description

Welocally Places For WordPress makes it simple to attach real places to your content effectively making your blog a hyper-local property in minutes. With rich maps and location geocoding you can add stylish and interactive maps that help your readers know where you are talking about. Associating a place with your post is as easy as searching for a keyword, pointing and clicking. Primary features include:

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Welocally Places offers a simple way to embed rich place information such as address, phone number, website and driving directions into your post. We also provide interactive map widgets to engage your readers with the places you have written about.

Add any place map or category of places as an interactive map to your site with simple shortcodes.

Installation

Upload the welocally-places folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory or install directly through the plugin installer.

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress or by using the link provided by the plugin installer.

Make sure to subscribe, there is a free trail period that lets you determine if our product meets your needs.

FAQ

Q:Can I use Welocally Places for a blog hosted on wordpress.com? A:No you can not. WordPress.com hosted blogs do not allow you to install plugins. Hosting your own blog gives you flexibility and allows you to monetize in new ways, so just take it to the next step and host your own blog. Consumer Rankings did a review of low priced hosting providers for WordPress. Check it out.

Q:What Browsers Do You Support? A:For Publishers we have tested creating places for and recommend versions starting at least Chrome 17.0.963.56, Safari Version 5.1.2 and Firefox 10.0.2. We do not recommend the use of IE for site owners using welocally places, but we have tested site vistors successfully using Welocally Places with IE 5.3.2 or greater.

Q:What is a POI?
A:POI stands for Point of Interest, and they are the places that people go to. We aggregate place info from many different providers, and this is the same type of data that location based game companies use when you ‚check in. It is commonly public establishments, parks or venues that people goto such as ‚ Uptown Grill.

Q:Does the mapping feature work only for places, not for addresses or intersections? A: Geocoding works for intersections.

Q:Why do I have to register before I can try your software out? A:The plugin itself is free and open source based licensed under GPL2. We provide a basic service that lets you look up places easily, as well as updates and notifications when we have new stuff.

Q:Is your plugin supported internationally? A: It should work, it has not been tested. Please give us feedback about your experiences if you use it internationally.

Contributors & Developers

“Welocally Places Core” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.